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Originally Posted by jfman
How much has been spent on not building HS2 and, to the nearest decade, how late will it be?
It's not like the UK has a long and successful track record of procurement with public money or infrastructure projects.
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… for those not acquainted with what passes for political debate in Scotland, this is the standard natbot reply to every criticism levelled at the Scottish government with regard to the ferry fiasco. Literally every thread you can find on Xitter or Facebook will have this exact retort in it somewhere (and usually several times over).
Someone else wasn’t very good at something, therefore it’s ok for us to be crap at our jobs.
And they accuse unionists of talking Scotland down.